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Hour 2 - First Impressions · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Boom!
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  Speaker 2: Shakalaka! It's our number two! Ben Maller Show, what are
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  Speaker 2: your first impressions of Giannis Adetokounmpo's opening act with the
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  Speaker 2: Miami Heat? They were run off the court by the Timberwolves. Awesome.
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  Speaker 2: How did the referees in that game allow the Wolves'
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  Speaker 2: lamello ball to travel without a whistle? A lot of
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  Speaker 2: frequent flyer miles for lamello ball. We'll talk about that.
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  Speaker 2: And in football, Troy Aikman's comments on Monday night still
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  Speaker 2: have legs. They've reignited the NFL's old school instinct versus
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  Speaker 2: analytics debate. Which side of the aisle are you on? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that's the question. We'll get to all of that and
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  Speaker 2: more right now. Settle in. It's hour number two. It
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  Speaker 2: has been said you only get one chance to make
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  Speaker 2: a first impression, and sometimes that first impression is a dud, dud, dud.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome in the beginning of another hour of the Ben
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  Speaker 2: with that, we press on. And we go back to
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  Speaker 2: Pro Bouncy Ball. It's another opening night in the NBA.
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  Speaker 2: We will have the rare and appropriate Maller monologues on
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  Speaker 2: Pro Bouncy Ball. Our lead this hour from Miami. Miami, Miami, Miami, Miami.
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  Speaker 2: And a made-for-TV opener. Aunt Edwards. Not my aunt. Not
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  Speaker 2: your aunt. Aunt Edwards. Anthony Edwards hit not one, not two,
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  Speaker 2: not three, not four, not five, not six, not seven,
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  Speaker 2: not eight. Nine money balls. Nine three-point shots. Much like
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  Speaker 2: me back in the day, Moneyball Maller. Nine three-pointers. Scored
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  Speaker 2: 45 points. While LaMelo Ball scored 21 in his Minnesota debut.
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  Speaker 2: And the Timberwolves play the role of spoiler alert. all
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  Speaker 2: the celebrities in South Florida, all the OnlyFans models, and
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  Speaker 2: everyone else there having a great time for a while,
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  Speaker 2: and then eventually Minnesota spoiling Giannis Adetokounmpo's first game with
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  Speaker 2: Miami by beating the pulp out of the franchise there
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  Speaker 2: by 25 points. Now, the better story is in the
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  Speaker 2: losing locker room, and it turns out that Giannis Adetokounmpo
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  Speaker 2: While he had a nice stat line, he had 35 points.
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  Speaker 2: He fouled out of his Heat debut. 21 of those
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  Speaker 2: points came in the first half. Bam out of bio.
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  Speaker 2: Remember he had that bogus 80-point game. It was all ridiculous,
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  Speaker 2: and it was a sham last year. Well, he scored
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  Speaker 2: all of 15 points for Miami, and the Heat get
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  Speaker 2: stomped on by the Minnesota basketball team. That is a
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  Speaker 2: good jumping-off point. Let us discuss the question. What are
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  Speaker 2: your first impressions of Giannis Adetokounmpo's opening act with the
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  Speaker 2: Miami Heat? One of the big transactions of the offseason.
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  Speaker 2: Giannis going from Wisconsin to Florida, to South Florida. And
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  Speaker 2: I've got Baskin Robbins, Apple Watch, and Microsoft. Microsoft. And
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  Speaker 2: we'll put all of these things together, and we're going
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  Speaker 2: to have a Malerpalooza as we play the ponies. Now,
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  Speaker 2: we always start with number one.
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  Speaker 1: Number one.
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  Speaker 2: One, one, one. Number one. What number is it? Number one. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: now I remember. So Giannis, while he certainly is still
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  Speaker 2: a franchise pillar, and he's above the marquee, come hell
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  Speaker 2: or high water, he's above the marquee. However, the rest
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  Speaker 2: of the house there in Miami, first impression, The rest
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  Speaker 2: of the Heat house looks like it was built by
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  Speaker 2: the three little pigs. It really does. And the Heat
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  Speaker 2: have the star attraction. Got to have a star. They've
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  Speaker 2: got the star. The supporting cast, it kind of appears
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  Speaker 2: to be like you went to a dinner theater in Boca.
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  Speaker 2: Not exactly Broadway. Not quite Broadway. And, yeah, it's October.
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  Speaker 2: It's the first game of the year. Things will get
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  Speaker 2: better or worse, for that matter. However, I would argue
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  Speaker 2: that this was an early season measuring stick game. A
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  Speaker 2: lot of the teams in the NBA aren't trying to win.
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  Speaker 2: They're not legit. You look, everyone's picking OKC or San Antonio.
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  Speaker 2: The third team would be Minnesota in the West. That
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  Speaker 2: would be the third team. They move some parts around.
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  Speaker 2: It's not the same roster. Obviously, you get LaMelo Ball.
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  Speaker 2: Some of the other supporting characters in Minnesota have gone
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  Speaker 2: to other teams to facilitate the LaMelo Ball, and some
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  Speaker 2: of the other moves. So there's a tug-of-war going on
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  Speaker 2: with the roster. But you say Miami, if they are
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  Speaker 2: a big-time team, at some point they're going to play
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  Speaker 2: a team like Minnesota in the playoffs. So how do
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  Speaker 2: you do? How's that measuring stick? Well, Miami needed a
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  Speaker 2: Werner ladder, and they needed a cherry picker and permission
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  Speaker 2: from air traffic control to reach the level that the
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  Speaker 2: Wolves are at when you juxtapose them side-by-side with the
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  Speaker 2: Miami basketball team. So the Greek freak... He had his
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  Speaker 2: pick of the litter. He could have gone to a
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  Speaker 2: number of teams that wanted him. And he traded Milwaukee
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  Speaker 2: Snowbanks in February for South Beach Bikinis. That was the move.
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  Speaker 2: And soon Giannis is going to discover what thousands of
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  Speaker 2: people who have relocated their lives to Florida, the Florida transplants,
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  Speaker 2: already know. That the weather's better. But that does not
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  Speaker 2: mean everything else improves just because you moved to Florida.
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  Speaker 2: Just living in Florida does not mean everything in your
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  Speaker 2: life is better. So the basketball forecast, I looked at
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  Speaker 2: the long-term forecast. We went to the National Weather Center.
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  Speaker 2: And they say that the forecast for Giannis in Miami,
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  Speaker 2: partly cloudy with a 90 percent chance of disappointment. So
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  Speaker 2: think of it like Giannis Adetokounmpo went down to Baskin
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  Speaker 2: Robbins and he say, can I get some of that
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  Speaker 2: championship chocolate? Not Dubai chocolate. I want championship chocolate. OK,
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  Speaker 2: we'll see if we can find it. So the person
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  Speaker 2: goes in the back, tries to find it. And then
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  Speaker 2: they can't find it. So we don't have that. OK, well,
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  Speaker 2: what else do you have that's a really winning thing? Well,
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  Speaker 2: we'll go back and put something together. So they went
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  Speaker 2: back to the back of Baskin Robbins. They went back
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  Speaker 2: and Giannis walked out with a double scoop of Rocky
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  Speaker 2: Road and a brain freeze. It's going to be a
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  Speaker 2: bumpity bumpity road there. The Greek freak. Now he's living
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  Speaker 2: that Miami Vice lifestyle from back in the day. However,
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  Speaker 2: the heat. Unless this was just a really terrible night,
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  Speaker 2: the Heat are playing Miami nice basketball. Not good basketball,
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  Speaker 2: not great basketball, nice basketball. All right, meanwhile, page two.
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  Speaker 2: I want to stay with this game. I had this
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  Speaker 2: on in the background. There was really nothing else to watch.
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  Speaker 2: So this was the game I had on. It was TNT,
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  Speaker 2: ESPN actually, using the TNT refugees. Remember last season when
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  Speaker 2: they hid Charles Barkley for the first three months of
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  Speaker 2: the season? Because that was a great idea. So they
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  Speaker 2: were actually there, and that's the only reason I watched.
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  Speaker 2: I really didn't pay much attention to the game. It
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  Speaker 2: was in the background. But then when Barkley and Kenny
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  Speaker 2: Smith and Shaq came on and Ernie Johnson, I paid attention.
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  Speaker 2: But we had a viral video involving the Timberwolves guard
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  Speaker 2: LaMelo Ball. So I'm going to try to describe this
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  Speaker 2: for those of you that didn't see the game and
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  Speaker 2: are blind. So LaMelo committed a tiptoe through the tulips,
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  Speaker 2: a rather obvious traveling violation. However, the three blind mice
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  Speaker 2: out there never blew the whistle. Ball appeared to take
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  Speaker 2: at least four, possibly up to six steps. Some say seven.
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  Speaker 2: It was followed by a jump shot. And he launched
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  Speaker 2: a step-back three-pointer. Anywhere from four to seven steps now. Nix, Homer,
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  Speaker 2: Mike Breen, Tim Legler, and Richard Jefferson, just like generic broadcasters,
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  Speaker 2: they watched the replay and collectively said, that's a travel!
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  Speaker 2: That's a travel! Now, Breen demanding accountability, saying that has
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  Speaker 2: to be called. He was in disbelief. over the officiating.
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  Speaker 2: This became a viral talking point on social media. It's like,
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  Speaker 2: what are you doing? You get three steps, but you
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  Speaker 2: don't get four, five, six, seven. So the question, how
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  Speaker 2: did the referees allow the Wolves' lamello ball to travel
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  Speaker 2: without calling a whistle? Just let it go. So the
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  Speaker 2: answer to this is rather easy. The NBA referees over
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  Speaker 2: the years have changed. They have... fully embrace the spirit
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  Speaker 2: of the rule book not the letter of the rule
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  Speaker 2: book mostly because over time the rule book has become
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  Speaker 2: a decorative coffee table book that nobody opens right in
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  Speaker 2: today's nba traveling continues to be just a suggestion it's
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  Speaker 2: kind of like the speed limit Hey, it's like an idea.
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  Speaker 2: You're supposed to go the speed limit, but typically you
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  Speaker 2: can go 10 miles over the speed limit and no
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  Speaker 2: one's going to really say anything in most places unless
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  Speaker 2: you have out-of-state plates and then you're cooked. But other
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  Speaker 2: than that, you're in really... really good shape so it's
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  Speaker 2: it's like the it really is like the speed limit
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  Speaker 2: in many ways and so the association apologist now i've
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  Speaker 2: already seen some of this they're insisting well you don't
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  Speaker 2: know ball the nba allows a gather step and that's
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  Speaker 2: all lamello ball was doing a gather step a gather
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  Speaker 2: step my fat ass a gather step lamello didn't take
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  Speaker 2: a gather step he took a gap year OK, I
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  Speaker 2: don't care that much in the big picture. It's a
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  Speaker 2: first game of the NBA season. It's just absurd because
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  Speaker 2: it's a preview of coming attractions. And he was packing
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  Speaker 2: the suitcase. He checked his luggage and he headed to
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  Speaker 2: the airport. LaMelo Ball. Vemelo took so many steps. How
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  Speaker 2: many steps? Thanks for asking. He took so many steps
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  Speaker 2: that his Apple Watch actually congratulated him on closing his
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  Speaker 2: activity ring. So bravo. Good job by you. Now, honestly,
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  Speaker 2: the NBA referees, they ought to be sponsored. They should
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  Speaker 2: have endorsement patches for Expedia because they clearly are in
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  Speaker 2: the travel business. And as for blowing the whistle, they
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  Speaker 2: were just, I guess, the referees practicing load management. They
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  Speaker 2: don't want to blow too many whistles early. You don't
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  Speaker 2: want to do that, right? You want to hold off
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  Speaker 2: on that. All right, final point. Let's go to football.
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  Speaker 2: What kind of football? A story that still has legs.
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  Speaker 2: Troy Aikman. Yeah, that Troy Aikman blasted the other night
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  Speaker 2: NFL analytics. This was during the Monday night football game
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  Speaker 2: where the 49ers and the Commanders played. He declared Aikman, quote,
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  Speaker 2: I think analytics is a good way to lose your
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  Speaker 2: job as a head coach, close quote. Comment came as
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  Speaker 2: the Niners faced a fourth down and three situation. And
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  Speaker 2: Joe Buck explained that Kyle Shanahan considered analytics, but he
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  Speaker 2: trusts his instincts developed over his years of calling plays. And,
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  Speaker 2: of course, teams that choke in the playoffs. Leave that
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  Speaker 2: part out. We'll leave that part out because the Niner
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  Speaker 2: fans are a sensitive bunch. We'll leave that part out.
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  Speaker 2: So Aikman praising that approach rather than just blindly following
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  Speaker 2: the numbers. Naturally, what do you think happened? The analytical nerd,
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  Speaker 2: nerd army, the Dorco. We saw this guy, Dorco, the
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  Speaker 2: comedian who quit the show. But guys, these Dorco guys,
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  Speaker 2: these analytical nerds erupted. And they were it was like
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  Speaker 2: a volcano. They were not happy here on social media,
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  Speaker 2: mocking Troy Aikman. The usual, oh, you're washed up. You're
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  Speaker 2: a boomer, Aikman. You know what you're talking about. How
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  Speaker 2: could you favor conservative decision-making, and you're ignoring valuable statistical
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  Speaker 2: information that my supercomputer came up with. All that crap.
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  Speaker 2: So the question, here it is. Troy Aikman's comments that
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  Speaker 2: still have legs. These comments still have legs, reigniting the
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  Speaker 2: NFL's old-school debate instinctively versus analytics that's the debate instincts
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  Speaker 2: versus analytics which side of the aisle are you on
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  Speaker 2: so if you have been with the show at all
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  Speaker 2: over the years we've been here a long time chances
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  Speaker 2: are you haven't been here since the beginning but you've
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  Speaker 2: been here for a little bit of it as we've
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  Speaker 2: done the heavy lifting on the overnight our position has
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  Speaker 2: not changed on this over the years we are riding
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  Speaker 2: shotgun with Troy Aikman on this one because everything in moderation,
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  Speaker 2: as we like to say, including moderation, and can we
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  Speaker 2: all stop pretending that the problem isn't analytics? Can we
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  Speaker 2: stop for a second? I know some people are getting
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  Speaker 2: shut-eye right now. A lot of people are. But can
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  Speaker 2: we stop for those that are awake that say, well,
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  Speaker 2: you know, this is not an analytical problem. Yeah, the
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  Speaker 2: problem is coaches hiding behind the analytics problem. That's the
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  Speaker 2: issue because they're terrified of going rogue and going against
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  Speaker 2: the analytical department. And then they're held accountable. And they
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  Speaker 2: don't want that. Think about it. You're making $ 10, $ 12, $ 13, $ 14,
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  Speaker 2: $ 15 million a year to be the head coach and
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  Speaker 2: to call some plays. And yet, despite all that money,
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  Speaker 2: you need permission from Microsoft Excel to make a basic
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  Speaker 2: fourth-down decision saying, Because the numbers indicate that the right
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  Speaker 2: move would be not to punt the ball away, but
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  Speaker 2: to go for it. But if you don't make it,
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  Speaker 2: you turn the ball over on downs and you give
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  Speaker 2: the other team the ball deep in your own territory.
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  Speaker 2: And there's a number of coaches in recent years that
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  Speaker 2: have just blindly followed whatever the Microsoft Excel printout tells
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  Speaker 2: them to do. They don't consider anything else. But for me,
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  Speaker 2: it's like, give me a break. We have created an
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  Speaker 2: entire cottage industry. dedicated to giving these overpaid head coaches
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  Speaker 2: plausible deniability. Analytics should be a simple tool in the toolbox.
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  Speaker 2: Football has always been about– analytics was never the word
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  Speaker 2: that was used back in the old days. It was tendencies.
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  Speaker 2: It was tendencies. It was like, all right, if the
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  Speaker 2: ball's on the near side of the field and it's
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  Speaker 2: third down, chances are they're going to throw to the
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  Speaker 2: wide side of the field, right, normally because there's more room.
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  Speaker 2: more spacing, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. But that's tendencies.
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  Speaker 2: They changed the word from tendencies to analytics, and they've
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  Speaker 2: added eight gazillion different categories. It's going up a blind
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  Speaker 2: alley with this. And it's a simple thing that should
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  Speaker 2: be in the toolbox. I'm not saying completely get rid
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  Speaker 2: of it. It's in the toolbox. But it's not the
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  Speaker 2: actual carpenter building the house. And for a lot of
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  Speaker 2: these coaches, for a lot of these coaches, it's the
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  Speaker 2: carpenter building the house. That's the way they treat analytics.
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  Speaker 2: And so we've taken this wonderfully unpredictable sport, professional football,
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  Speaker 2: and we've handed the pass key over to essentially accountants.
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  Speaker 2: And everything that is analytics tells you what has happened.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't mean it's going to happen again. It's amazing
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  Speaker 2: because things do change. Can you imagine if you had
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  Speaker 2: a hot tub time machine, and let's say you went
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  Speaker 2: back and Vince Lombardi was coaching the Green Bay Packers,
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  Speaker 2: the great Vince Lombardi, and you told Vince Lombardi, you said, listen, Vince,
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  Speaker 2: you've done a hell of a job here with the Packers,
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  Speaker 2: but we're not going to allow you to punt because
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  Speaker 2: there's a 27-year-old mathematics graduate from an Ivy League school
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  Speaker 2: who who has an algorithm tied to the supercomputer and
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  Speaker 2: is all part of AI that disagrees. So you're not
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  Speaker 2: going to punt. I'm sorry, Mr. Lombardi. You just can't punt. Well,
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  Speaker 2: I want to punt. Well, you're not allowed to punt.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm Vince Lombardi. It doesn't matter. The 27-year-old geek
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  Speaker 2: from the Ivy League school that graduated with mathematics. He's
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  Speaker 2: got the algorithm. He's got the AI. And that's it.
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  Speaker 2: It's absolute madness. It is absolute madness. And again, I've
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  Speaker 2: maintained my position. And even though these people who own
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  Speaker 2: sports teams have earned a lot of money, a lot
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  Speaker 2: of them earned their money because they inherited it or,
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  Speaker 2: you know, this blind luck on certain business deals. They perceive,
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  Speaker 2: the perception is these people are very smart because they've
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  Speaker 2: got a lot of money. The reality is they are easily,
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  Speaker 2: easily victims of skullduggery when some guy shows up with
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  Speaker 2: a bunch of charts and graphs and Venn diagrams about
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  Speaker 2: how this is how much better your team would have
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  Speaker 2: been if you followed the analytics. It's psychological warfare on
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  Speaker 2: these rich people who are so stupid. They have no moderation.
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  Speaker 2: They're all in. All in. It is the Ben Maler show.
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  Speaker 2: the whole thing. Coming up next hour, we have Ask Ben.
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: That'll be your questions, our answers. Later this hour, it's
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: Benny versus the Penny. Man versus metal. Man versus metal.
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: And we're going to pick the Thursday night game, the
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: Patriots road show, the traveling circus. heads to chicago to
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: take on the bears the bears at soldier field the
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• 22:38
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• 22:41
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• 22:43
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• 22:45
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• 22:48
  Speaker 2: I know the Bulls also got smoked. And they got
• 22:53
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• 22:56
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  Speaker 1: Lost.
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  Speaker 2: They were down by 50. And they ended up losing
• 23:05
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• 23:08
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• 23:15
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• 23:19
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• 23:21
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• 23:24
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• 23:26
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• 23:28
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• 23:31
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• 23:35
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• 23:39
  Speaker 2: Come out and watch the Suns. They really compete. They
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: really fight for you. And that's it. And Toronto, they
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: won against the Bulls. Bulls trailed by as many as
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: 48 points. Never led against the Raptors. And the great
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: endorser of businesses that don't exist, Kawhi Leonard, that fraud,
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: had a terrible debut. Five of 17 from the floor
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: in his return. To the Raptors, as they did not
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: play well, but it didn't matter because the Raptors won big. Big, big, big, big, big.
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• 24:30
  Speaker 2: know it's October, right? Oh, yeah, it's October. I know.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: And you know what that means? Do you know? Do
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: you know? Do you know? Do you know? Do you know?
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: Do you don't know? No, what does it mean? Well,
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: there's no time like October, and this is what it's
• 24:40
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• 24:43
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• 24:47
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• 24:51
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• 24:55
  Speaker 2: we go, and we say hello to Gunner, who's at
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: the break room at the Walmart in northern Minnesota. And
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: Gunner is up next here to give us some propaganda
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: about the Minnesota Timberwolves.
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: No, it's not about the Timberwolves.
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: That's how my Panthers team. Oh, the Carolina Panthers, yes. Yes,
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: the Carolina Panthers.
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: You said, oh, they're going to win Super Bowl.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: They're all favorites.
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: They're no longer the favorites.
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: Actually, ironically, Gunnar, this is how bad Panthers are. The
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: Rams still have better Super Bowl odds with a losing
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: record than the Carolina Panthers. Do you imagine how much
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: your team must suck in the eyes of the gambling
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: world that the Rams have two games under. 500 and
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: they have better Super Bowl odds than the Carolina Panthers?
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: How embarrassing is that?
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: You know why they have better odds.
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: Because everyone's favoring the Rams because they picked up Myles.
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: Garrett They got Aaron.
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: Well, Miles Garrett's not here.
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: I'm a retirement, and.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: Your terrible Matthew Sabert throwing the interception, but I'm right.
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: I don't know how they're doing it still. Can you
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: tell the woman to stop talking? We're trying to do
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: a show here. Why is there a woman talking behind you?
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: What's going on? I'm in the one-shot, okay? She's very loud,
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: that woman. Why is she so loud? My God. Can
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: you tell her to use her indoor voice? Can you
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: tell her? She's talking about yogurt? I'm in the lunchroom, okay?
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: I understand, but I'm trying to do a radio show, dude.
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: I don't understand how you're getting so many voices.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: I'm on my earbuds.
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: You're big-timing us, man. You're big-timing us. Come on now.
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: That's a bad job by you. Yeah, okay. Every one
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: of your calls is the same. Have you noticed, Gunnar?
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: It's propaganda. It's all propaganda. I tried to call you
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: last week, and you weren't on the show. Where were you, Ben?
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: I was on a vacation. Is that allowed? Am I
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: allowed to go on vacation? I didn't realize I had
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: to look in and approve. I didn't realize I had
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: to get approval from Gunner at the Walmart in Minnesota
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: if I miss a show. I had no idea. I'll
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: have to go back. Let me go back and read
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: my contract. I'm sure there's some fine print there. You're
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: not allowed to take a day off unless Gunner in
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: Minnesota approves. I never took a day off during football season.
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: Look where it got me. Am I allowed to have
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: a day off, Ben? No. Let me ask Gunner. Gunner,
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: is Lorena allowed to take a day off from the
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: show Gunner?
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: I love Lorraine, so yeah, she's fine. I didn't know
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: you were on the show.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: I call the show, oh, there's Brian.
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: Noe on the show. So you called the show without listening.
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: You called the show without listening, so that's a bad job.
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: I was listening all night. Well, you wouldn't have to
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: call if you listened and heard someone else talking. You
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: would know it's not me. Why am I fighting with you?
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: I knew I got on the show because those people
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: let me on the show.
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: The last time I called you, the last couple of
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: times I called you, you left me.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: My whole lunch hour.
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: I don't screen the calls. That's up to Coop. You
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: guys all, you email. I get a bunch of emails
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: that Coop just leaves you on hold. I don't know
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: what to tell you. It's his job to screen the calls.
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: If he doesn't want to screen the calls, that's on him.
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: When I'm there, I'll talk to you guys if I'm there.
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: But if I'm not, I can't. It's not my job
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: to screen the calls. I can't. Stop emailing me and
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: complaining about being left on. I don't know what to
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: tell you. I don't control that. You guys all complained
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: to me. Oh, I called up. I was on hold
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: for 10 minutes. Nobody screened the call. I don't know
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: what to tell you. I don't. I would screen the calls.
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: I don't have that job. That's not my job. So
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: I don't know what you want me to do. All right.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: Are you done?
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: I feel like he's done. All right. Thank you. Tell
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: that woman she's annoying, okay? Seriously, go outside. Yeah. I mean,
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: come on. You're talking about yogurt, whatever. I don't know.
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: Let's say hello to eeny, meeny, miny, moe. Let's go
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: to Brian, who's somewhere in New York, and he wants
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: to rant and rave about statistics and analytics and all that.
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: What's going on, Brian? Welcome. Hi, Ben.
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: How are you?
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: So what I was going to say.
• 29:26
  Speaker 5: Was I was listening to your little comment about the
• 29:30
  Speaker 5: analytics calling the Packers coach there. But I remember the Giants–
• 29:37
  Speaker 5: against the 49ers, 1990 NSC Championship game we didn't kick
• 29:40
  Speaker 5: a we didn't score a single touchdown we picked five
• 29:43
  Speaker 5: field goals and if analytics was involved there's no way
• 29:46
  Speaker 5: we would have won that game.
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: You gotta take yeah you can get them I think
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: you're preaching to the choir here.
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly. A lot of my friends, they go with
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: the analytics. It's like, no, they go from fourth down,
• 30:06
  Speaker 4: taking points off the board, because you never know what's
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: going to happen in the next couple of plays. You
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: always get the ball back over the turnover or something.
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I agree. I'm just wondering, what is it
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: going to take for this to change? If you think
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: about it, It's so far– the pendulum has shifted so
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: far into analytics and all that. It's just insane. And
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: you look at the point– I remember a couple years ago–
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: I forget the guy's name. Who was the coach before
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: Jim Harbaugh with the Chargers? The guy that did yoga?
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: Remember the guy that was coaching the Chargers and the
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: yoga coach? Anyway– Brandon Staley. There you go. I can't remember.
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: Brandon Staley. Remember, he went for it because the analytics
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: said to go for it, like, inside his own territory,
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: deep in his own territory. There was a Chargers game
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: against the Vikings. Yeah, but it was like– but after
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: the game, it was like, well, the analytics said to
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: go for it. Like, okay.
• 31:05
  Speaker 4: That's their scapegoat.
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: Exactly. It's like, hey, we all– anybody has a job.
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: You get in trouble, you're like, well, I have to
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: have an excuse. These coaches have an excuse. Yeah. So
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: I would have fired Brandon Staley for doing yoga. That's
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: what I would have fired him for. Right. Yes.
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: Is it true that the coaches can't go against the Microsoft?
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: It seems that way. A lot of them are afraid
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: to do it, whether they're allowed to or not, because
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: if they get it wrong, they're allowed to do it
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: if they get it right. It's kind of like gambling.
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: You don't have a gambling problem if you win. You
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: only have a gambling problem if you lose, right?
• 31:43
  Speaker 4: Only if you lose the problem.
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. Or drinking for that. You know, if only
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: you can't control your alcohol, you have a drinking problem. But, yeah,
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: I got you. All right, well, thank you. There you go.
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: Go hang up on yourself. All right, it is the
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: Ben Maller Show. We're going to have Benny versus the
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: Penny coming up in a couple minutes. I did want
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: to mention this. So Sam Laporta, you know who that is, right? Lorena,
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: you know what team Sam Laporta plays for? Yeah, I
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: think he's with the Red Sox. Yeah, Red Sox, Lions,
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: it's all the same. Lions wear Red Sox all the time.
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: They do? Okay, yeah. Out in the wild, right? In Africa,
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: when they're out, the real Lions, when they're out doing
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: their thing, they wear... Anyway, Sam Laporta is a football player,
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: and apparently a pretty good one. He's had some injury issues,
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: as everyone does who plays football, because that's kind of
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: the way it goes. However, he is not contractually... locked
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: up by the Detroit Lions past this season. And, of course,
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: we're very concerned about our NFL players' finances. God forbid
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: they don't get paid immediately. It becomes a big-time problem, right?
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: Just take for granted these guys all have to get paid. So, anyway,
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: Sam Laporta, the Lions tight end, he publicly blasted the
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: Detroit football team for failing to offer him a contract extension.
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: He played the... This is a day to reference. There's
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: a classic Aretha Franklin song, Respect. And he played the
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: respect card from the bottom of the deck. Sam Laporta.
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: A lack of respect. He appeared on some podcast, which
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: no one listens to. Laporta complained about risking his health
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: every week, declaring, I break my effing back for this team.
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: He went, oh, we have the audio. This is from
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: something called the Pardon My Take podcast. I have no
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: idea what that is, but here is Sam Laporta.
• 33:40
  Speaker 6: The combination of getting your heartstrings twisted as well as.
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: The violent sport that we play.
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: You know, it sucks. And it's disappointing.
• 33:50
  Speaker 6: That you go out there every week and you bear
• 33:52
  Speaker 6: the risk of getting hurt. You know, like last year,
• 33:55
  Speaker 6: whatever it was, week nine, week 10, you know, I
• 33:57
  Speaker 6: break my back for the team. And then I'm going
• 33:59
  Speaker 6: out there this year and I'm balling and maybe they're
• 34:03
  Speaker 6: just not showing the love.
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: It sucks.
• 34:06
  Speaker 6: I'm going to continue to be a pro. So I'm
• 34:09
  Speaker 6: going to continue to go do my thing and ball out.
• 34:11
  Speaker 6: And in three months, if I don't get to wear
• 34:14
  Speaker 6: the Honolulu blue and play for the Lions anymore, it's
• 34:17
  Speaker 6: going to be all good. I'll go get paid somewhere else.
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: So whatever. Okay. Whatever. Let me get my violin out
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: for Sam Laporta, the 25-year-old who is in the final
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: season of a contract that has paid him, by the
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: time he's done, $ 9. 5 million on his rookie contract. My God.
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: What an absolute punk. It's not a great look for
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: Sam Laporta. That line at the end, I'll go get
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: paid somewhere else. So whatever. There you go. Is this
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: his third year? This is the final. It's fourth year.
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: Final season of his rookie contract. So he could become
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: an unrestricted free agent next season unless Detroit extends him
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: or It gives him the franchise tag. So there you go.
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: Didn't he say something a couple months ago about how,
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: you know, I don't have to be the highest paid
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: tight end. I just want to get paid and whatever.
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: All that. So good for him. I think all my
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: people here, you third shifters that are working your second
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: job and barely making rent and you've got to put
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: food on the table, you're eating ramen noodles because you
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: can't afford anything else. Let's all feel sad for Sam
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: Laporta on a $ 9. 5 million contract. Yeah. All right. Anyway,
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: it is the Bane-Maller Show. Yeah.
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: There you go, Sam.
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: It's a real sad story there. Well, here's the instant trivia,
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: and then we'll get to Benny versus the Penny. Clippers
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: guard Keaton Wagler became the second youngest player in NBA
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: history to record at least 15 points, five rebounds, and
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: five assists while shooting 50% or better from the floor
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: in his NBA debut. Blank is the only other player
• 36:03
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• 36:06
  Speaker 2: the instant trivia, the answer, and Benny versus the Penny.
• 36:09
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• 37:14
  Speaker 1: Benny versus the Penny.
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: But first, we'll follow the rundown and we will do
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: the insta trivia. Clippers guard Keaton Wagler became the second
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: youngest player in NBA history to record at least 15 points,
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: five rebounds and five assists while shooting 50% or better
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: from the floor. In his NBA debut, Blank is the
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: only other player to accomplish that at a younger age. Alf,
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: the alien opponent, went with Norm Nixon. Rhea Ripley from
• 37:44
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• 37:49
  Speaker 2: from Mediocre Kabuki. Who else do we have? Coop's favorite
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: Celtic of all time, the White Mamba. Who else do
• 37:56
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• 38:00
  Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio host Bernie Frato. Gary Busey from JT
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: the Wingman. That's his answer. Willie O'Ree from Steve, the
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: misplaced San Diegan. Ichiro, who's 53 today from late-night drug tester.
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: Pistol Pete Maravich from Analog Al. Chet Sorensen from NADA
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  Speaker 2: from LAX. Do you have an answer? Not Benjamin Button,
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  Speaker 2: a guest by Sean and Phoenix. What's your answer, Lorena?
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: It's got to be Doja Cat.
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  Speaker 1: Nope.
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: LeBron James. It's LeBron James. All right. Let's get to it.
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: Here we go. Benny versus Penny. New England and Chicago.
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  Speaker 2: The Thursday night game, week seven, begins at Soldier Field.
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  Speaker 2: Bears a three-point favorite on DraftKings. Mild weather in Chicago.
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  Speaker 2: Al Michaels, Kirk Herbstreet. and his dog Peter will be there.
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  Speaker 2: New England, check this out. They're 5-0 against the spread
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: in regular season primetime games under Mike Rabel. His team
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  Speaker 2: has also won three straight entering this matchup. I'm going
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: to take the Patriots plus the three points. How will
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: New England cover? Obviously, limit the turnovers. Drake May has
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: been much better lately against weaker opponents. Extend drives with
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: his legs. Chicago's secondary blows. A lot of injuries here.
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  Speaker 2: The Bears have allowed eight passing plays of 40-plus yards
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  Speaker 2: this season. So here's a chance. A.J. Brown had the
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  Speaker 2: drop sees last week. He can make up for that here.
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: Demario Douglas as well gets some of those big plays.
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: And just make the Bears kick field goals. Shorten the game.
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: Make them kick field goals. Caleb Williams drive between the
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: 20s and all that. They don't need a masterpiece, the Patriots.
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  Speaker 2: Just protect the football. Hit a couple of big plays. And...
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: and this will be a rock fight of a game.
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  Speaker 2: I am going to take the team from the Commonwealth,
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: the Patriots. This will not be a track meet. It
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: will be kind of a slow tempo type thing. I'll
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: take the Patriots plus the points. And Koopaloop, the penny picks.
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: The penny lands on the head, so it's going with
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: the Chicago Bears. All right, so disagreement to begin Week 7. Again,
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: we are taking the New England Patriots. Now, New England
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: is missing multiple people on the offensive line, which does
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: seem problematic. I'm not a huge believer in the Chicago
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: Bears defense. But, again, the pick, we'll keep it simple.
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  Speaker 2: I'll take the Patriots plus the points on a Thursday
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  Speaker 2: night special.